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Explain: Acquired Immunity.

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Acquired immunity, on the other hand, is pathogen specific. It is characterised by memory.
This means that our body, when encounters a pathogen for the first time, produces a response called primary response which is of low intensity.
Subsequent encounter with the same pathogen elicits a highly intensified secondary or anamnestic response.
The primary and secondary immune responses are carried out with the help of two special types of lymphocytes present in our blood, i.e., B-lymphocytes and T- lymphocytes.
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There are two type of acquired immune response.
→(i) Antibody Mediated Immune response or / Humoral Immune response."
The B-lymphocytes produce an army of proteins in response to pathogens into our blood to fight with them. These proteins are called antibodies.
The T-cells themselves do not secrete antibodies but help B cells produce them.
Each antibody molecule has four peptide chains, two small called light chains and two longer, called heavy chains."
Hence, an antibody is represented as H2L2. Different 22 types of antibodies are produced in our body
IgA, IgM, IgE, IgG are some of them. A structure of an antibody is given in Figure 7.4. Because these antibodies are found in the blood, the response is also called humoral immune response.
(ii) Cell Mediated Immune response
The second type is called cell-mediated immune response or cell- mediated immunity (CMI). The T-lymphocytes mediate CМІ.

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